The Washington State Department of Ecology is recruiting to hire a Coastal Geospatial Scientist (Natural Resource Scientist 3). This is a project position that is funded until August 31, 2026, and has the possibility of being extended pending future funding.
Application Timeline: Apply by April 13, 2025. This position will remain open until filled. Applications received after April 13, 2025 may not be considered.
This project position supports Washington’s Applied Coastal Research and Engineering team (ACRE) in developing, processing, and analyzing marine shoreline mapping and coastal monitoring data products for public use – helping inform research, engineering, and policy decisions and advance coastal resilience and nearshore habitat conservation. Datasets include GNSS topographic surveys, boat-based and aerial LiDAR, multibeam bathymetry, Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry, imagery (ground photos and oblique aerials) and sediment grain size. The work supports Washington’s decades-long seasonal beach morphology monitoring along Washington’s Pacific Ocean coast and recently established biennial condition mapping and monitoring of Salish Sea shorelines in Puget Sound.
The work involves creating and optimizing workflows related to coastal feature mapping and change detection, imagery interpretation, surveying, remote sensing, positional accuracy assessment, geospatial analysis, geodetics/geomatics, database management, data inventory, processing, analyses, visualization, reporting and publishing, and may use a variety of software such a ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Raster Analysis, and other toolboxes, Matlab, Python, and similar analytical tools.
For more information and to apply for this position, please follow the details in this link: Ecology Job Opportunities | Careers at Ecology
For specific questions about the position location options, schedule, or duties, please contact Michelle Gostic at: Michelle.Gostic@ecy.wa.gov